Twelve Citizens of the World (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Leonard S. Kenworthy
- First Published: 1944
- Time of Work: 1811–1944
- Setting: The United States, India, South Africa, Argentina, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, China, Italy, Finland, Russia, Greenland, the North Pole, Germany, French Equatorial Africa, and Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Ralph Bunche, Mahatma Gandhi, Toyohiko Kagawa, Pierre Ceresole, John Boyd Orr, Albert Schweitzer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Domingo Sarmiento, Mathilda Wrede, Fridtjof Nansen, Arturo Toscanini, Sun Yat-sen
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Social action, Social reform, Revolutionaries, Education or educators, Missions or missionaries, India or East Indian people, Latinos, China or Chinese people, Japan or Japanese people, Biography, Exploration or explorers, Conducting or conductors, League of Nations, United Nations
- Locales: Africa, United States, Germany, Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Russia, Great Britain, South Africa, Switzerland, India, Norway, Arctic, Finland, Greenland
Form and Content
A well-known educational scholar and a prolific author of social science studies, Leonard S. Kenworthy presents in Twelve Citizens of the World: A Book of Biographies twelve biographies of his candidates for honorary world citizenship. The book’s organization is haphazard in the sense that Kenworthy’s subjects are not arranged chronologically, by nationalities, or by gender. Unification is achieved by the common thread that makes each individual noteworthy: his or her lengthy and unstinting dedication to lessening violence and alleviating human...
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